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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

10,000 Birds

In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Photography & Ethics & Me.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

I greatly enjoyed reading these articles on diverse topics such as suet, nyjer seed, the development of humming-bird feeders, rarities at feeders, wild bird feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, and, importantly, “funding for birds and wildlife.” Fish and Wildlife Service. The story of Duncraft is a good example.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

10,000 Birds

Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”. Eckelberry, cofounder of the Asa Wright Nature Center and noted wildlife artist, did portraits of local birds.)

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